The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series
• Author: Costa Lobo, Marina.
• TeilnehmendeR: Costa Lobo, Marina,
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages)

This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how the European Union influences national politics and how the national response to Europe can serve as a channel of accountability in the European Union. The authors engage fundamental questions relating to national elections and European issues with an eye to explaining the dynamics of EU political support and opposition in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The authors come to grips with these questions using extensive original data on EU coverage in the national media, parliamentary debates, and online surveys. In short, this volume is a signal contribution to our understanding of EU politicization. -- Gary Marks, Burton Craige Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Italy. This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU accountability works, it is necessary to focus instead on national elections and the national political environment. Through a detailed, multimethod analysis this book establishes rigorously the paths of European accountability at the national level, its propitious contexts in the media and parliamentary debates, and whether the paths are similar from Greece to Germany. The findings have implications for both national and European Union democracy, underlining the importance that national institutions have in enabling citizens to hold the EU accountable. Marina Costa Lobo is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, and Director of the European Political Science Review.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Holding Europe Accountable Nationally: Media, Parliaments and Voting in Europe -- Introduction -- The Book's Argument -- The Book's Contribution -- EU Politicisation -- Holding the EU Accountable? -- Data Collection -- The Book Chapters -- References -- 2 News vs. Opinion Articles on the European Union: The Politicisation of the EU in the Mainstream Press -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Research Questions, Data and Methods -- Results -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 3 Parties Acting Strategically: National Parliaments' Role in Holding the EU Accountable -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Expectations, Data, and Methods -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- 4 Polity or Policies? The European Union in Parliamentary Debates and the Media -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- The Politicization of the European Union -- Where is the EU Politicized? -- The Multidimensional Nature of the EU -- Expectations -- Methods and Data -- Results -- Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1 -- Appendix 4.2 -- References -- 5 Experimental Evidence of EU Issue Voting -- EU Issue Voting in Legislative Elections -- Experimental Evidence of EU Issue Voting -- Data and Experimental Design -- Results -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Table of Contents -- Experiment Material -- Example of Conjoint Round -- Analysis -- Robustness Checks -- Additional Matches -- Alternative "EU Distance" -- Bibliography -- 6 The Left-Right Dimension, Europe and Voting in Bailout Europe -- Introduction -- European Integration Issue Voting Before and After the Crisis -- Southern Europe, the Left-Right Dimension and EU Issue Voting -- EU Issue Voting in Context: The Tone of Parliamentary Debates -- Data and Methods -- Results.

Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 7 EU Issue Voting in Simultaneous Elections: The Case of Belgium -- Introduction -- EU Issue Voting in Context: Belgium as a Least-Likely Case Study -- Politicisation of EU in Media and Parliamentary Debates -- Modelling EU Issue Voting in 2019 -- Results -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Full Tables of Models Presented in the Text -- Appendix 2: Replication of the Results Using Vote Intentions (Survey Wave 1) -- References -- 8 The Importance of EU Issues in German Elections -- Introduction -- Politicization of the EU in the German Media and Parliamentary Debates -- The 2021 Elections -- Determinants of German Voting Behaviour in the 2021 Elections -- Data and Methods -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 9 After the Crisis: EU Issue Voting in Greece -- Introduction -- EU Issue Voting in Context -- Politicization of the EU in the Media and Parliamentary Debates -- Modelling EU Issue Voting in 2019 -- Dispute Between Greece and North Macedonia -- Explaining Voting in Greece's 2019 General Elections -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 10 Salient But Not Polarized: The Role of the EU in the Irish Electoral Arena -- Introduction -- Ireland's Relationship with the EU: Stable Support Despite the Euro Crisis and Brexit -- The Elections of 2020-An End to Irish Exceptionalism? -- Politicization of the EU in the Irish Media and Parliamentary Debates -- The Media -- Parliamentary Debates -- Determinants of Irish Voting Behaviour in the 2020 Elections -- Data and Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 11 Portugal: EU Issue Voting in Mainstream and Challenger Parties -- Introduction -- Parties, Voting and the EU in Portugal -- Studying the EU Across Different Forums: The Case of Portugal -- The 2019 Election Campaign: Media and Parliamentary Data.

Benchmarking EU Issue Voting in Portugal -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 12 A Broken National Consensus? EU Issue Voting and the Radical Right in Spain -- Introduction -- Politicization of the EU in Media and Parliamentary Debates -- Did EU Preferences Matter for Voting Decisions? -- Conclusion: European Integration Discourses and EU Issue Voting in Spain -- Appendix -- References -- 13 Consequences of EU Politicisation for Voting in National Elections -- Further Research -- References -- Correction to: A Broken National Consensus? EU Issue Voting and the Radical Right in Spain -- Correction to: Chapter 12 in: M. Costa Lobo (ed.), The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29187-6_12 -- Index.